Re: [PATCH] asus-laptop: fix a memory leak in asus_laptop_get_info error path

[Corentin Chary]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The callers of write_acpi_int_ret() pass ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
> the caller must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned.
>
> This patch adds a missing kfree(buffer.pointer) before return -ENOMEM
> if kstrdup fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> index 71db2ef..3d76c6a 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> @@ -1397,8 +1397,10 @@ static int asus_laptop_get_info(struct asus_laptop *asus)
>                }
>        }
>        asus->name = kstrdup(string, GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (!asus->name)
> +       if (!asus->name) {
> +               kfree(buffer.pointer);
>                return -ENOMEM;
> +       }
>
>        if (*string)
>                pr_notice("  %s model detected\n", string);
> --
> 1.5.4.3
>
>
>
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Acked-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@xxxxxxxxxx>

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